aureola

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My theory is that there is a human aureola.

From Time Magazine Archive

The seat was a sort of alcove, almost a nest; it was at the same time a glory round them; the tender aureola of love passing into a cloud.

From Toilers of the Sea by Hugo, Victor

My head swam with a whirl of strange thoughts, and Bethulah, already divine to me, took on a dazzling aureola, sailed away into some strange supernatural ether.

From Ghetto Tragedies by Zangwill, Israel

This glory was called nimbus, or aureola, and is defined by Servius to be "the luminous fluid which encircles the heads of the gods."

From Museum of Antiquity A Description of Ancient Life by Haines, T. L. (Thomas Louis)

Dendrœca aureola Closely allied to the wide-ranging     D. �stiva.

From Island Life Or the Phenomena and Causes of Insular Faunas and Floras by Wallace, Alfred Russel